| 单词 | expatiate |
| 释义 | expatiate (once / 3779 pages) v The verb expatiate means "to add details to in order to clear up." If your story is confusing to everyone who hears it, certain key parts must be missing. Better expatiate so that people can understand it. To pronounce expatiate correctly, accent the second syllable: "ex-PAY-she-ate." When you expatiate on a piece of writing, you add details. The goal is to make your ideas clearer to readers, perhaps by offering an example to help them understand. Teachers can tell when you are expatiating and when you are just adding to what you've written, say, to reach a certain length requirement. That's usually called "padding." WORD FAMILYexpatiate: expatiated, expatiates, expatiating, expatiation+/expatiation: expatiations USAGE EXAMPLESWhen the question is general enough, they move quickly from answering it to expatiating on general themes. Washington Post(Sep 15, 2015) It was suddenly cool to know stuff, to expatiate on the causes of the Spanish Civil War. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel(2002) Groucho expatiated on Lear’s relationship to his daughters. The New Yorker(Jun 25, 2014) v add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements cut, edit, edit outcut and assemble the components of detail provide details for exposit, expound, set forthstate exemplify, illustrate, instanceclarify by giving an example of particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize, specifybe specific about depict, describe, drawgive a description of premiseset forth beforehand, often as an explanation spell outmake explicit; specify in detail clarify, clear up, elucidate make clear and (more) comprehensible |
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